A self-confessed romantic, Richard Labonté again offers erotic short fiction at its finest on the subject of love—first love, true love, wake-up sex, makeup sex, and everything in between—in this 2011 edition of Best Gay Romance. Lightning strikes more than once during a fateful tryst in Martin Delacroix's "First Roach Pond"; Edward Moreno's "You're a Dog" reminds us that love can be flexible; and Eric Nguyen recalls first kisses and the stirrings of puppy love—and lust—in "How Boys Flirt with Other Boys."